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“…FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD DARE TO FACE THE FURIES AND WRITE ABOUT HIS OR HER LIFE. BETH KEPHART HAS READ THE GENRE CLOSELY, PUT HER OWN FEET TO THE FIRE, AND DISTILLED THE FORM WITH ALL THE PASSION OF A GREAT TEACHER.”
MARIE ARANA, AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AMERICAN CHICA
ABOUT US
Juncture delivers memoir workshops and resources to writers from around the world. Our current offerings include The Story of You—eight illustrated programs addressing key memoir questions and approaches (and offering takeaway prompts)—group critiques, a master’s level program, and individual consulting. Juncture was co-created by the writer/teacher Beth Kephart and her husband/partner, the artist William Sulit. Please visit our workshops page.

Beth Kephart, the award-winning author of some 40 books of fiction and nonfiction, has chaired national literature juries and has written about memoir and literature for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Millions, Literary Hub, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Huffington Post, Image Journal, and elsewhere. Her essays can be found at the Boston Globe, Orion, The Normal School, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Creative Nonfiction, Cleaver, Brevity, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Oldster Magazine, and elsewhere.

 

Beth is the recipient of the 2015 Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching and Mentoring at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 2013 Miami YoungArts Master Teacher. She has conducted workshops across the country, participated on many big-festival panels, given numerous keynotes, taught online and in person through Juncture, CraftTalks, Cleaver, and elsewhere, and interviewed some of the most important writers of our time on live stages. She was named one of the 50 writers celebrated in the year-long Philadelphia’s Literary Legacy exhibit at the Philadelphia International Airport. Beth’s thoughts about writing and teaching memoir are featured in this July 2022 Publishers Weekly story. Her book, We Are the Words, as well as her memoir expertise is featured in Issue 49 of Breathe Magazine.

 

Beth is, additionally, the author of Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir (Avery), winner of the 2013 Books for a Better Life Award (Motivational Category), a memoir workbook called Tell the Truth. Make It Matter. (Juncture Workshops), and Consequential Truths: On Writing the Lived Life (Juncture Workshops). Wife | Daughter | Self: A Memoir in Essays (Forest Avenue Press, 2021) was named one of the 35 Best Book Club Books by Independent Review, My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera (Temple University Press, 2023) was glowingly cited in The New York Times Book Review, and You Are Not Vanished Here: Essays has been recently launched (Juncture Workshops, 2024). You can visit our memoir resources page for more information about these books.

 

Beth’s first novel for adults, Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News, will be released by Tursulowe Press in 2025.

 

Beth’s acclaimed novels for younger readers include Cloud Hopper, The Great Upending, Wild Blues, This Is the Story of You, Going Over, and Undercover. She has authored a series of picture books including Trini’s Big Leap (illustrated by William Sulit), And I Paint It: Henriette Wyeth’s World (illustrated by Amy June Bates), Beautiful Useful Things: What William Morris Made (illustrated by Melodie Stacey), A Room of Your Own: A Story Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Famous Essay (illustrated by Julia Breckenreid), and Good Books for Bad Children: The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom (illustrated by Chloe Bristol). She has authored biographies for children on Cleopatra and Dolores Huerta for Core Knowledge, has a four-part science/history/art series called Basic Materials due out from Kane Press, and collaborated with the illustrators Roberto Innocenti and Olga Dugina on Mud Angels and The What If Book, both forthcoming from Creative Editions.

 

Beth is a paper artist whose work has been featured in What Women Create and in Print Magazine online, among other places. She sells her work through an Etsy shop, at farmers’ markets, and at guild shows. More about her paper story can be found at Bind Arts.

 

More about Beth’s books, and links to her essays, can be found at a bethkephartbooks.com.